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Iranian deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said on Monday that the ongoing crisis in Yemen can be resolved solely through political means.

Abdollahian made the remarks during a telephone conversation with the United Nations [UN] special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, on Monday.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran supports the attempts by the United Nations [UN] for dispatching humanitarian aid and organizing real negotiations between Yemeni groups and parties, and believes that the crisis in Yemen can be resolved solely through political means and dialogue," Abdollahian stated.

Yemen’s peace talks, mediated by the UN, started recently in Switzerland’s city, Geneva, on June 15 and ended on Friday. Following the talks, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement lashed out at the Saudi regime for derailing the talks aimed at ending the deadly conflict in Yemen.

"Although the UN at this phase of the negotiations did not succeed in establishing a ceasefire, it was expected that serious and urgent measures would be taken to establish green zones and earmark some sea and airports to accelerate the operation of dispatching humanitarian aid" to the Yemeni people, Abdollahian said.

He also stressed Iran’s readiness to send humanitarian aid to Yemen in coordination with the UN.

For his part, the UN envoy said that there was a deep gap between the Yemeni groups attending the talks in Geneva, underscoring the continuation of negotiations between the Yemeni parties.

He also thanked the Islamic Republic of Iran for dispatching humanitarian aid for the Yemeni people.

Meanwhile, according to UN estimates, over 2,600 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and another 9,755 wounded as a result of the ongoing attacks on Yemen.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States Saudi began a military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in an attempt to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.